The 18th Annual Colloquium on Aging, to take place at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison on Wednesday, Oct. 18, will feature the work of a number of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists.
The 35th Annual Conference on South Asia will be held Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 19-22, at the Madison Concourse Hotel, 1 W. Dayton St., Madison.
Cisco Systems chairman and former president and CEO John P. Morgridge will address corporate directors and officers during a keynote speech titled “Building Something Special: Governance at Cisco” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s annual Directors’ Summit conference on Friday, Nov. 3.
Leadership skills, creativity, self esteem, critical thinking, improved academic performance, tolerance, values and problem solving – are those frills or staples of the arts in the campus setting? Chancellor John Wiley will answer that question Tuesday, Oct. 17, as part of the University Club Luncheon Series.
Gordon Brewster Baldwin, a distinguished constitutional and foreign relations law scholar at the University of Wisconsin Law School, died in his sleep this past weekend after attending an opera in Italy with his wife, Helen.
The pressing issues of an increasingly strained global environment require a broad societal response – including the systematic assignment of monetary value to the services nature provides such as water purification and climate regulation, according to an assessment of the findings of a study of the health of the world’s ecosystems.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google announced an agreement today to expand access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical books and documents from more than 7.2 million holdings at the UW-Madison Libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library.
Distinguished historian Thomas Holt will deliver the 2006 Merle Curti Lectures, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History.
An assistant professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is working to teach how important the family is to Hispanic and Latino parents in caring for adult children with disabilities.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has scored a major in-state recruiting coup, attracting the state’s largest number of 2006 Wisconsin All-State Scholars.
In the month following the traditional Labor Day kickoff of the 2006 election campaign season, television stations in nine Midwest markets devoted an average of 36 seconds to election coverage during the typical 30-minute local news broadcast, a new analysis conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows.
Several downtown streets will be closed on Friday, Oct. 13, for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Homecoming Parade.
In an effort to foster public understanding regarding reports of misconduct by members of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band, Chancellor John D. Wiley and band director Mike Leckrone today disclosed the nature of some of the reported behavior.
Paula S. Apsell, the executive producer for public television’s science series Nova, has been named University of Wisconsin-Madison Science Writer in Residence for the fall of 2006.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison environmental engineer and her graduate student are among researchers on a multi-institutional team who have mapped the metagenome of elusive phosphorous-eating organisms key to thousands of wastewater treatment processes in the developed world.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have put forward an intriguing theory that introduces a whole new dimension to the debate on what might be causing stronger and more frequent storms.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business will hold a kickoff ceremony to celebrate the start of the construction of a $40.5 million addition to Grainger Hall.
University of Wisconsin-Madison area and international studies programs will sponsor several workshops for K-12 teachers and students this fall.
University of Wisconsin-Madison interim Dean of Students Lori Berquam is encouraging all students to play an active role in shared governance by voting in next week’s Associated Students of Madison fall elections.